Theatre Quotes - Page 17

• What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.

  Kevin Spacey

  Kings, Years, Two

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

  George Allen

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• I call the art of theatre a "dirty art", since there are so many people involved who have needs and whims to be satisfied.

  Jennifer Tipton

  Art, Dirty, People

  Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com

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• I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

  Kevin James

  Moving, Kids, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.

  Matt Damon

  Writing, Play, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• Pretty much at the age of 16, I realized acting wasn't going to be the vocation for me...too political not enough creative control. But I loved the craft and my father wanted me to get a college degree. Seemed natural to study what I loved and Marymount Manhattan has a wonderful theatre program, I highly recommend it! A lot of what I learned there I apply to my comicbook writing and pacing.

  Holly Golightly

  Father, Writing, College

  Source: hoopercomicart.blogspot.com

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• I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Actors, Want, Too Much

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• I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

  Laura Benanti

  Thinking, People, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's really hard to find stuff that is original. You pick up scripts and in four pages you know where it's going and the same thing when you are sitting in a theatre, I just rejoice when something unfolds in a way that I'm not conducive.

  Susan Sarandon

  Sitting, Four, Pages

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

  Brian Cox

  Fall, Egalitarianism, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . . Go it old girl. You've done it well.

  Helen Hayes

  Girl, Queens, Discipline

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• Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

  James Thurber

  Broadway Theatre, Superstitions, Theater

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• Theatre is so much fun because you do theatre and you have a month of working it out on your own, and then a month of rehearsal, so by the time you get to stage I know where I'm failing and I know where I'm succeeding and your boundaries are pretty concrete.

  Chris Pine

  Fun, Rehearsal, Months

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.

  Willem Dafoe

  New York, Thinking, Healthy

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Men, Enemy

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Talking, Differences

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Women became almost our bigger audience. Teenage girls went crazy for my movie. I saw it. I went to theatres all over and there were gangs of girls going and screaming. There were kids that were 10 or 11 years old when September 11 happened. They've been told for years they're going to get killed, they're going to get blown up. Every time you go on an airplane, X-ray your shoes because you're going to get blown up. Terror alert orange, don't travel. So, people have a reaction and they want to scream. Horror movies have become the new date movie.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Teenage, Crazy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

  Voltaire

  Play, Way, Values

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• I did spend about 5 years in the Griffin Theatre Company in 1978 actually , and worked therefore about 5 years on a voluntary basis. This was very much as a amateur, doing things like mopping the floor, handling props, setting up scenery, etc. I never acted, and don't think I'm an actor, but those years in the theatre taught me a lot about professional theatre.

  Robert Dessaix

  Thinking, Years, Actors

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• It doesn't bother me. Sure, everybody wants approval, but I came from the theatre and I've always treasured a remark from there which goes: 'For every six people who love you, there will be half a dozen who loathe you.' The quality of an author's work is not usually determined until after his death. Even Dickens got some pretty bad reviews.

  Robert Ludlum

  Love You, People, Quality

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• Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.

  Gary Busey

  Men, Acting, Festivals

  "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

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• There's little money in theatre.

  Cyrus Broacha

  Littles, Little Money

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• I couldn't give a sh*t what they have to say. As soon as I go home and see my husband James Thornton of Holby Blue fame and pick up my dog and cuddle him, that's all that matters. I couldn't care if some theatre reviewer thinks my American accent sounds a bit Welsh.

  Joanna Page

  Dog, Husband, Home

  "Joanna Page: 'Within minutes of meeting James Corden, you'll want to sleep with him'". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 13, 2008.

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• I took part in a theatre festival in Massachusetts two summers after I graduated from college. Then I was in Los Angeles thinking: "I'm going to go to New York." I'd decided that I would not have a chance of a film career, so I was about to make the move. I bought a plane ticket and found a place to live in New York, packed my bags and of course the universe "told me" that I was not meant to go. Suddenly, a week before I was supposed to leave, I had three job offers and one of them was my first movie.

  Chris Pine

  Summer, Jobs, New York

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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